Paid Pregnancy Leave a) After completion of three (3) months of continuous employment a permanent Employee shall be paid a pregnancy allowance as supplement to her Employment Insurance Maternity Benefits.
Paid Pregnancy Leave. Employees working eighteen (18) hours or greater per week shall be eligible, provided they are in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits pursuant to Section 30 of the Employment Insurance Act, S.C. 1996, c.23 to the following payments:
Paid Pregnancy Leave. An employee shall be permitted to utilize sick leave during her period of physical disability resulting from pregnancy or termination thereof, provided the dates of disability are certified in writing by her physician. Use of sick leave for pregnancy related disabilities shall be in accordance with the Sick Leave procedures of this Article.
Paid Pregnancy Leave. An employee on leave as set out in Article 19 above, who is in receipt of Employment Insurance Maternity Benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act shall be paid a supplemental unemployment benefit. That benefit will be equivalent to the difference between seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular weekly earnings and the sum of her weekly Employment Insurance Benefits and any other earnings. An employee must complete ten (10) months of continuous service prior to the expected date of birth to be paid a supplemental unemployment insurance benefit. Such payment shall commence on a monthly basis following completion of the two week Employment Insurance waiting period, and receipt by the Employer of the employee’s Employment Insurance cheque stub as proof that she is in receipt of Employment Insurance Maternity Benefits, and shall continue while the employee is in receipt of such benefits for a maximum period of fifteen (15) weeks. The Employer will accept the first EI stub as full and sufficient proof of her eligibility for top-up payments for the duration of the pregnancy leave period. The employee’s regular weekly earnings shall be determined by multiplying her hourly rate on her last day worked prior to the commencement of the leave, time her average hours worked per week during her four (4) regular pay periods prior to the commencement of the pregnancy leave. The employee does not have any vested right to except to receive payments for the covered employment period. The plan provides that payments in respect of guaranteed annual remuneration or in respect of deferred remuneration or severance pay benefits are not reduced by payments received under the Plan. Where an employee elects to receive parental leave benefits pursuant to Section 12(3)(b)(ii) of the Employment Insurance Act, the amount of any Supplemental Employment Benefit payable by the Employer will be no greater than what would have been payable had the employee elected to receive the parental leave benefit pursuant to Section 12(3)(b)(i) of the Employment Insurance Act.
Paid Pregnancy Leave. A unit member who remains on paid status up until the date of an actual disability resulting from pregnancy, childbirth or miscarriage, shall be permitted to utilize accumulated sick leave during her period of physical disability, provided the dates of disability are certified by her physician. Use of sick leave for pregnancy-related disabilities shall be in accordance with the Sick Leave procedures of this Article.
